Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:43:07 +0100 From: Dermot McNally <dermot@traveldev.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Proposed enhancement to FTP autocompletion Message-ID: <3992A35B.4D213DFB@traveldev.com>
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Hi, Something that has constantly annoyed me about the filename completion in ftp (its great usefulness notwithstanding) is how the completion of directory names works differently to in (say) bash. My preferred behaviour is that, when a directory name is completed, a slash is appended. This makes it easier to enter long paths. I set out to try to change ftp's behaviour in this way. I've made it work for the case of local files, but obviously remote files are a bit more complicated. I haven't looked comprehensively into what's involved for this, and there's a good chance that it would be unrealistic to expect to make it work for all flavours of remote FTP server. Before I tackle this, I wanted to solicit feedback - is this something people would find useful? Assuming it's possible to do it without making things really inefficient, I can't see any snags with adding the trailing slash. It will Do The Right Thing in all cases I can think of (except "get directory.tar.gz", I suppose). Also, to what extent would this cause divergence with NetBSD, which appears to be the source of autocompletion in the first place? Dermot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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